Capitol Weekly: Public support declines for Ca special tax extension election
As a fiscal conservative who wants nothing to do with the Tea Party I’ll be posting some pages to re take the FisCon brand and restore it to sanity if only in my own humble small way here at LGF. Some of these pages may not be popular, but they will always be sourced far better than what we have been seeing lately.
Today-California may not get the increased taxes extended 5 years as our Governor proposes. This will result in either a legislature based tax increase or truly severe cuts. Cuts that get way past the fat and into the muscle of California services.
Gov. Brown’s effort to place a tax-and-cut budget before the public in a special election has lost suport from the public, although half of the likely voters surveyed still think it’s a good idea, according to the latest poll by the Public Policy Institute of California.
Some 66 percent of likely voters supported the idea in January. Now, about 51 percent back it, the survey found. A detailed announcement of the poll is available here. The full survey can be downloaded here.
Among Democrats, support has dipped from 73 percent two months ago to 64 percent now. Republican support, meanwhile, dropped from 55 percent to 34 percent. The decline in Republican support is all but certain to bolster opposition to Brown among GOP lawmakers.